The Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Sunday warned that the next two days might witness widespread rainfall as the country awaited the winter season to set in.
鈥楾he rain will start in the coastal areas in Chattogram and Barishal and spread to almost all over Bangladesh,鈥� said meteorologist Omar Faruque.
The temperature, however, will not start dropping before November 11, the Met Office said.
The BMD also released its one month outlook on Sunday, revealing that October witnessed 29 per cent more rain than the average normal rainfall.
This was the third consecutive month that saw excessive rain after the peak of monsoon passed rather dry, deficient of rain.
Considering by division, Khulna saw 115 per cent more rain than the average normal in October, followed by Mymensingh receiving 65.8 per cent excessive rainfall, Barisal 62.1 per cent excessive rain and Rajshahi recording 31.3 per cent excessive rainfall.
Three low pressures formed in October and one of them intensified into the cyclonic storm Dana.
The highest rainfall of 250mm in the month was recorded on October 4 in Chandpur.
The average maximum and minimum temperatures of the month were 0.9C higher than the normal.
September witnessed 33 per cent more rain than normal with three low pressures formed in the month. Cox鈥檚 Bazar recorded the country鈥檚 highest rainfall of 378mm on September 12. Still, the month was 1.8C warmer than the normal average.
August saw 56.2 per cent excess rainfall. Three low pressures formed over the month causing rain in almost all over Bangladesh except Rangpur.
Monsoon got even drier in July with 17.6 per cent less rainfall than the average normal. Except for Sylhet, seven divisions received less rainfall than expected despite two low pressures formed. July was 1.9C warmer than the average temperature for the month. The highest rainfall of 309mm was recorded in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on July 11.
But the first month of the season - June 鈥� turned out to be rain deficient with an overall 9 per cent less rainfall compared with the normal average rain for the month. Sylhet division, however, recorded 122 per cent more rainfall than normal, witnessing a spell of flash flood that affected 50 lakh people in northern and northeastern districts.
The BMD predicted three low pressures to form this month with chances of one of them turning into a cyclonic storm.
The BMD predicted normal rainfall in the month.
